hey man, thanks a lot for the help. I clicked on the red box in that spreadsheet but nothing happens. where would I find the list?
home made "sticker" or "bender" or whatchamacallit :)
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It might be an excel version conflict....there should be a little arrow to right of the box
yeah, I get nothing like that. I'll try it on a different pc. thanks for the threading info, I've read what you linked and I think I get it a little more than I did, going to spend a little time playing with it and see. really appreciate the help with this, if I could thread on my lathe it would really change things for me. I was almost thinking that the only way I could ever get into metric threading was that I needed a new lathe 
yeah, I get nothing like that. I'll try it on a different pc. thanks for the threading info, I've read what you linked and I think I get it a little more than I did, going to spend a little time playing with it and see. really appreciate the help with this, if I could thread on my lathe it would really change things for me. I was almost thinking that the only way I could ever get into metric threading was that I needed a new lathe
Try this one....I also added a picture to show what the dims are.
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There are a lot of people that swear by the old the southbend lathes.
Here is my next lathe Sieg SC8 Lathe
hey, thanks a lot for that, this one works fine for me, really appreciate that.
A while ago I bought a gear drive 3 phase motor and a separate VFD to drive my leadscrew separately with electronic variable speed control so I can get any thread pitch I want but it's ben a project on the backburner for a while now
that lathe looks really good. hardened ways in the 2K range and 11 x 30 is a nice size. when I got my southbend I was considering buying a relatively cheap new china lathe too but decided I want to go with old iron instead, so I picked up my southbend heavy 10. it's old and it's a bit sloppy, but it is very heavy and rigid and unless your turning long gun barrels it's accurate enough. I don't do anything that needs high precision work over long spans and I can get pretty good precision with this thing but it's pretty sloppy and worn. I'd eventually like to upgrade to a nice unworn slightly bigger leblond or monarch or something really nice, but honestly I haven't even built all that much yet even with this one, so can't justify the expense. spending 5k to tinker and maybe make a few hundred bucks worth of parts is pretty hard to do right now
heres my lathe and mill. I've since added a quick change holder to the lathe and got rid of the lantern post holder
the mill is an older japanese made unit and pretty cool, it's basically the older model as the new jet mills, same manufacturer and same castings. I converted it to VFD drive. it's not as big and heavy as a bridgeport which I really wanted but it's big enough to not be tiny, and it fits my tiny garage much better than a bridgeport which would take up much more space. don't really have the room to go with a full sized bridgeport type deal
I think I decided which one I'm going to build first. the poldiac with brass sleeves and a matching combo brass/stainless base with a dna20 in there. i love the podiac as a mech but I can always pck up another one if I miss it too much
A while ago I bought a gear drive 3 phase motor and a separate VFD to drive my leadscrew separately with electronic variable speed control so I can get any thread pitch I want but it's ben a project on the backburner for a while now
that lathe looks really good. hardened ways in the 2K range and 11 x 30 is a nice size. when I got my southbend I was considering buying a relatively cheap new china lathe too but decided I want to go with old iron instead, so I picked up my southbend heavy 10. it's old and it's a bit sloppy, but it is very heavy and rigid and unless your turning long gun barrels it's accurate enough. I don't do anything that needs high precision work over long spans and I can get pretty good precision with this thing but it's pretty sloppy and worn. I'd eventually like to upgrade to a nice unworn slightly bigger leblond or monarch or something really nice, but honestly I haven't even built all that much yet even with this one, so can't justify the expense. spending 5k to tinker and maybe make a few hundred bucks worth of parts is pretty hard to do right now
heres my lathe and mill. I've since added a quick change holder to the lathe and got rid of the lantern post holder
the mill is an older japanese made unit and pretty cool, it's basically the older model as the new jet mills, same manufacturer and same castings. I converted it to VFD drive. it's not as big and heavy as a bridgeport which I really wanted but it's big enough to not be tiny, and it fits my tiny garage much better than a bridgeport which would take up much more space. don't really have the room to go with a full sized bridgeport type deal
I think I decided which one I'm going to build first. the poldiac with brass sleeves and a matching combo brass/stainless base with a dna20 in there. i love the podiac as a mech but I can always pck up another one if I miss it too much
yeah I really like it too. new base models they probably start at not too much more than that lathe you linked. once you have a mill it's hard to imagine how you did without it so long most of the things I fabricate are automotive related so these little ecig projects seem like easy lite stuff in comparison, hard to resist building things for me I guess
most of the things I fabricate are automotive related so these little ecig projects seem like easy lite stuff in comparison, hard to resist building things for me I guess - Status
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